It’s been unseasonably cold, but seasonably busy as we head into the homestretch of another action-filled semester. Here are some examples of our reporters’ latest work: Barry Paddock, working for the Daily News, covered the tragic death of a FDNY lieutenant killed battling a Staten Island blaze. The TV studio was in full swing Friday [...]

Students interested in health and medicine reporting may apply for a special summer internship created for the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism by the National Institutes of Health. The internship, at NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Md., comes with a $5,000 stipend and has been funded for 2009 and 2010.

Hard to believe we’re entering the final month of the semester. Here are some of the latest results of our reporters’ continuing hard work: Joshua Cinelli wrote an article for City Hall about local efforts to boost the economy by luring more foreign investment. We all know quitting smoking saves lives and money – Francesca [...]

Hard to believe we’re entering the final month of the semester. Here are some of the latest results of our reporters’ continuing hard work: Joshua Cinelli wrote an article for City Hall about local efforts to boost the economy by luring more foreign investment. We all know quitting smoking saves lives and money – Francesca [...]

“The new technologies for telling a story, like Twitter, are useful but it is the ‘boots-on-the-ground’ reporting that will define us as journalists.” – Writing Coach Heath Meriwether as quoted in The Write Stuff

What a week! We produced more than 40 story packages on Election Day alone, as well as completed our great interactive map. Some of our work was widely linked to, and run by Off The Bus, Our Town, the West Side Spirit and the Queens Courier. As Dean Shepard noted, we kept the momentum going [...]

There were a lot of numbers being thrown around during all the election post-mortems today. We generated some impressive statistics of our own: We produced 40 stories yesterday, many of them packed with video, audio, and slideshows, and worked on by teams. That’s on top of the 25 pieces we completed in the five weeks [...]

What a week! We produced more than 40 story packages on Election Day alone, as well as completed our great interactive map. Some of our work was widely linked to, and run by Off The Bus, Our Town, the West Side Spirit and the Queens Courier. As Dean Shepard noted, we kept the momentum going [...]

There were a lot of numbers being thrown around during all the election post-mortems today. We generated some impressive statistics of our own: We produced 40 stories yesterday, many of them packed with video, audio, and slideshows, and worked on by teams. That’s on top of the 25 pieces we completed in the five weeks [...]

Even with the end of Daylight Savings Time, there still aren’t enough hours in the day for all the reporting our staff is somehow managing to do. We added 14 election-related stories to the News Service this week – including pieces that were picked up by Off The Bus (via Lives in Focus), am New [...]